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Dave the Wonder Boy said:
MASTER OF KUNG FU 102-120.
And issue 120 was the last story Gene Day did before he died very unexpectedly in late 1982 of a heart attack at the age of 31.

Byrne and Austin were such a great art team during X-MEN (1977-1981), but even when Austin came back just a year later to ink FURTHER ADVENTURES OF INDIANA JONES, issues 1 and 2, you could see the two had diverged in style to the point that the same magic was no longer there.
Likewise in 1986, when Austin inked the first issue of Byrne's new SUPERMAN series.



I recall Byrne saying that he didn't feel Day's death was all that unexpected given that, even though rather young, Day was very much overweight and a *heavy* smoker.

Also, you're right about the Byrne/Austin work on INDIANA JONES...but they still produced quality, competent work.

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